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现行版本

The term "process" means process, art, or method, and includes a new use of a known process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or material.

「制法」该词系指制程、技艺或方法，且包括一习知制法、机器、制品、物之组合或原料的新使用。

提案版本

The term "process" means process, art, or method, and includes a use, application, or method of manufacture of a known or naturally-occurring process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or material.

「制法」该词系指制程、技艺或方法，且包括一习知或自然发生制法、机器、制品、物之组合或原料的使用、应用或制造方法。

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The term ‘useful’ means, with respect to an invention or discovery, that the invention or discovery has a specific and practical utility from the perspective of a person of ordinary skill in the art to which the invention or discovery pertains.”; and

「实用的」该词系指，关于一发明或发现，对该发明或发现相关技艺的通常技术者而言，该发明或发现有一特定且实际用途；且

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Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.

发明或发现任何新颖而实用的制法、机器、制品或物之组合，或前述各项任何新颖而实用的改良者，如符合本法规范及要件，可获其专利。

提案版本

(a) In General.—Whoever invents or discovers any useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject only to the exclusions in subsection (b) and to the further conditions and requirements of this title.

(a) 总说 ─ 发明或发现任何实用的制法、机器、制品或物之组合，或前述各项任何实用的改良者，如进而符合本法规范及要件，除非为(b)项所列例外，可获其专利。

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Eligibility Exclusions.—

适格性排除 ─

(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), a person may not obtain a patent for any of the following, if claimed as such:

(1) 总说 ─ 除非符合本项(2)规范，一人所请发明若仅如以下所列，不得获其专利：

(A) A mathematical formula, apart from a useful invention or discovery.

(A) 一数学程序，不含一实用的发明或发现。

(B) A process that—

(B) 一制法 ─

(i) is a non-technological economic, financial, business, social, cultural, or artistic process;

(i) 系非技术性的经济、金融、商业、社会、文化或艺术面加工；

(ii) is a mental process performed solely in the human mind; or

(ii) 系一纯于人类内心实施的心智历程；或

(iii) occurs in nature wholly independent of, and prior to, any human activity.

(iii) 完全独立于且先于人类活动，自然产生。

(C) An unmodified human gene, as that gene exists in the human body.

(C) 一未经改造的人类基因，同于人体内所存基因。

(D) An unmodified natural material, as that material exists in nature.

(D) 一未经改造的天然原料，同于自然界所存原料。

(2) CONDITIONS.—

(2) 规范 ─

(A) CERTAIN PROCESSES.—Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(B)(i), a person may obtain a patent for a claimed invention that is a process described in such provision if that process is embodied in a machine or manufacture, unless that machine or manufacture is recited in a patent claim without integrating, beyond merely storing and executing, the steps of the process that the machine or manufacture perform.

(A) 部分制法 ─ 纵使落入本项(1)(B)(i)，即一人所请发明系如其描述的制法，只要该制法体现于机器或制品内，仍可获其专利，除非申请专利范围虽写入该机器或制品，但于储存及执行之外，未捆绑该机器或制品实施的[其他]制法步骤。

(B) HUMAN GENES AND NATURAL MATERIALS.—For the purposes of subparagraphs (C) and (D) of paragraph (1), a human gene or natural material that is isolated, purified, enriched, or otherwise altered by human activity, or that is otherwise employed in a useful invention or discovery, shall not be considered to be unmodified.

(B) 人类基因及天然原料 ─ 按本项(1)(C)及(D)，一人类基因或天原料经分离、纯化、浓缩或经其他人类活动变更，或在一实用的发明或发现作其他使用，不应视为未经改造。

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Eligibility.—

适格性 ─

(1) IN GENERAL.—In determining whether, under this section, a claimed invention is eligible for a patent, eligibility shall be determined—

(1) 总说 ─ 判断一所请发明依本条是否为专利适格客体时，适格性判断应 ─

(A) by considering the claimed invention as a whole and without discounting or disregarding any claim element; and

(A) 考虑该所请发明整体，勿忽视或无视任何申请专利范围组件；且

(B) without regard to—

(B) 不考虑 ─

(i) the manner in which the claimed invention was made;

(i) 该所请发明产生方式；

(ii) whether a claim element is known, conventional, routine, or naturally occurring;

(ii) 一申请专利范围组件是否习知、传统、例行，或自然发生；

(iii) the state of the applicable art, as of the date on which the claimed invention is invented; or

(iii) 截至该所请发明的发明日，相关技术先前技术；或

(iv) any other consideration in section 102, 103, or 112.

(iv) 载于102、103，或112条的其他考虑。

(2) INFRINGEMENT ACTION.—

(2) 侵权之诉 ─

(A) IN GENERAL.—In an action brought for infringement under this title, the court, at any time, may determine whether an invention or discovery that is a subject of the action is eligible for a patent under this section, including on motion of a party when there are no genuine issues of material fact.

(A) 总说 ─ 依本法所提侵权之诉，法院随时可确认系争发明或发现依本条是否为专利适格客体，包括重大事实无实质争点时有当事人提出动议。

(B) LIMITED DISCOVERY.—With respect to a determination described in subparagraph (A), the court may consider limited discovery relevant only to the eligibility described in that subparagraph before ruling on a motion described in that subparagraph.

(B) 有限证据开示 ─ 本款(A)所述确认，法院就是类动议作成裁决前，可考虑仅与其适格性相关的有限证据开示事证。